ONCE described as halfway between scrap and antiques or cash from trash, architectural salvage is today one of the trade’s biggest success stories.
Thornton Kay, a passionate environmentalist and reclaim advocate, and founder of Salvo Fairs and the SalvoWeb, sums it up well in his succinct foreword to The Reclaimers, first published in 2005.
“As our built environment became more protected, so the predominant salvage type moved from Georgian to Victorian – now retro is all the rage.